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    "localId": "519067",
    "label": "Tihong",
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    "id": "519067",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tihong",
    "date": "1585",
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    "wikidata": [
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    "cul": [
        "China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Wanli reign (1572-1620)"
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    "tec": "carved cinnabar lacquer",
    "tombstone": "Tihong, 1585. China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Wanli reign (1572-1620). Carved cinnabar lacquer. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1961.420.a",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Low-Beer, Fritz. <em>Chinese Lacquer of the Middle and Late Ming Period</em>. [Stockholm]: [Östasiatiska], 1952.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 22, fig. 85, and p. 35"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Low-Beer, Fritz. \"Chinese Lacquer of the Middle and Late Ming Period,\" <em>Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin</em>, no. 24, 1952.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 22, fig. 85, and p. 35"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums.\" <em>Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America</em> 16 (1962): 104–124.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 116",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20067049"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1962.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 49, no. 9, 1962, pp. 199–227.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 225, cat. no. 83",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25151915"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Low-Beer, Fritz. \"Restoration of Two Late Ming Lacquers.\" <em>Oriental Art</em>, Vol. X, no. 4, Winter 1964, pp. 234–246.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: figs. 1–6"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Luzzatto-Bilitz, Oscar. <em>Lacche orientale</em>. Milano: Fabbri, 1966.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 24, p. 61"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Riddell, Sheila. <em>Dated Chinese Antiquities, 600-1650</em>. London: Faber and Faber, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned:  pp. 212-213, cat. no. 170a,b"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum = 國立故宮博物院].<em> Hai wai yi zhen. Qi qi </em>[Chinese art in overseas collections. Lacquerware = 海外遺珎. 漆器]. Taibei Shi Shilin qu Waishuangxi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1987.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 115"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. “Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 77, no. 8, 1990, pp. 286–323.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 17, p. 316",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"
        }
    ],
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:05:14.202000",
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    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "med": "carved cinnabar lacquer",
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